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Stalingrad | 
 enlarge | Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Actors: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vavrova
Studio: Fox Lorber
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 3403
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 134
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D5036D
ISBN: 6305037280
UPC: 720917503622
EAN: 9786305037286
ASIN: 6305037280
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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It's tempting to call this harrowing picture a World War II version of All Quiet on the Western Front: both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people, Russian defenders and German invaders alike. Not unlike Spielberg's approach to Saving Private Ryan, German director Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a series of gut-wrenching episodes, events which have the tang of authenticity and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so well. --Robert Horton
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 3.5 stars out of 4 December 19, 2008
The Bottom Line:
The movie's relentless pace slows a bit in the less-intense third act, but that's a minor knock on this absolutely superb war film featuring some great battle scenes, good characterization, and a fitting conclusion; I can recommend few war movies more highly.
An Anti-War Piece of the Combat Canon December 8, 2008
I came to this film out of curiosity - I'd been writing a historical novel about the Eastern Front war, and as that wound dow, this turned up. It's by the makers of the critically acclaimed German submarine move Das Boot (The Boat), and the same gritty reality comes through here.
As with all good war writing, the nature of war makes the film an anti-war piece of the combat canon.
Good War Movie September 21, 2008
After having read a few books and scene numerous documentaries on the subject. The World at War series did a great job on this. I had to purchase this movie even knowing the reviews here were mixed. I agree with many reviews on both sides. Overall I would say this to be a good movie though. It was well made and acted. My only complaint is they tend to portray the german soldiers as cry babies, deserters, remorseful, disobedient, and un-tough. I'd say that's very far from the real truth. The german soldier was as good as he was because he wasn't any of those things. Obviously with so many german soldiers in this battle you would find some of these kinds of people but all together in one company? That's hard to believe. I'd say the majority of them were not remorseful at all. And they surely wouldn't have survived as long as they did had they been disobedient slackers. That was a little irritating. Still, on the whole this was very well done.
stalingrad September 19, 2008
this movie is good,especially the language,the german,they spoke in their language and with english subtitles.i go through your list and found out that mostly region 2 dvd war movie,the language is in german but no english subtitle,for example,cross of iron and ther war movie,i hope u state the product of the dvd whether it got english subtitles or no.
thank
The best of the very best August 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't think so much about to buy this film. If you like war films this is a MUST.
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